Looking for something to write about? Try out one of the prompts from three and a half pages of ideas. The list includes a variety of different topics that you can pick and choose from when planning a writing assignment or unit.

Concepts

Writing, Narrative Writing, Persuasive Writing, Expository Writing, explanatory writing, Writing Prompts

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Pair these prompts with graphic organizers or template to assist learners as they plan and structure their writing
• Pick a few of the simpler ideas to use as warm-ups or inspiration for journal entries

Classroom Considerations

• While these were created with fifth graders in mind, you could easily adapt these writing prompts for your fourth grade class
• These include explanatory, narrative, and persuasive writing prompts; however, the prompts are not separated into categories

Pros

• Comes with plenty of prompts that cover a variety of different writing purposes

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.3.1.a W.3.2.a W.3.3.a W.4.1.a W.4.2.a W.4.3.a W.5.1.a W.5.2.a W.5.3.a